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Scotty sends us his work on Andrew Finn, a lawyer with the firm of Jackson Finn Legal Services, LLC in Colorado Springs. He claims that he was a Warrant Officer 2 with the 2d Battalion 75th Rangers. Oh, yeah, and his MOS was 11B;

Yes, it makes no sense. There are no infantry warrant officers, at least there weren’t when I served. Warrants are in technical fields – medical, maintenance, supply, but not in combat arms. But Finn wouldn’t know that because he never served in the Army, at least he never did according to the National Personnel Records Center which sent this:

Colorado Springs is an Army town and I’m sure he thought that coming up with a good Army story might help his business, but I think this particular revelation will work against his original intent.

Beretverde: that’s MOS 180A, Special Forces Warrant Officer, and has been for a number of years. I seem to remember that ODAs in the early 1980s were authorized warrants even prior to the 18-series CMF being established, but that’s 30+ year old memory now and I won’t swear that memory is correct.

Enlisted “feeder” MOSs for 180A are today limited to those in the 18-series – no direct accessions from 11B to 180A. Believe that’s also been the case for a number of years.

The 180’s also get to go through their own version of WOCS at Bragg instead of spending time at the Rucker Academy For Misfit Soldiers. They still went through Rucker when I did, and I though sending them there was silly.

And no Army Warrant would refer to himself as a WO2- it is CW2 and trust me a freshly promoted CW2 is happy to have that “Chief” on there and not have other warrants call him WOJG anymore. When you are a WO1 everyone knows you are new to the Warrant game and isn’t sure how much you know, add that second dot and the way people treat and see you changes a lot.

I checked the website of the Colorado bar and found no one named “Andrew Finn” who is licensed to practice law in Colorado. (There are six lawyers named Finn licensed in CO, but none in Colorado Springs, and none with a first or middle name resembling Andrew.) I also checked the Texas bar because he claims to have gone to school there but again, I found nothing.

It is possible that he is licensed in another state, with an easier bar exam, and only handles Federal matters (Fed tax, bankruptcy, immigration, military courts, etc.) This is a common practice in states with very onerous licensing requirements.

It sounds like a sleazy-ass dodge, but there are a lot of states where bar licensing requirements are not to ensure the quality of new lawyers, but more an incumbent protection racket for current practitioners.

I know Andrew. In fact I trusted him when he told me all of his war stories. I AM a veteran, never in wartime, but I wanted to help him out. I became his representative payee because he’s not allowed to handle his own accounts. I have to miss work and be in COURT because he said I didn’t pay his bills. I have all the receipts. Court date Jan 7th, 2015 courthouse on Tejon. If the word could get out I would love to have real veterans standing on my side. Thank You, JL

How about Peterson Air Force Base and the Headquarters of the Space Command not to mention the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Air Force Space Command and U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) under what became known as the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (CMOC)

Something doesn’t smell right about Mr. Finn as a lawyer, either. His LinkedIn page is full of typos and he claims a LLB and an LLM, but not a Juris Doctorate. I may be mistaken, but a LLB is a Canadian thing and hasn’t been conferred in the US in a generation. Apart from California, he wouldn’t be permitted to take the bar without a JD. Neither Andrew Finn or his firm is listed on Martindale. He also claims to have received his LLM at the same time as his undergraduate LLB, all combined in four years (again, no JD). Moreover, a cursory look from 1998 onward fails to bring up any reference to him as a lawyer other than his own words in Colorado, where he may be trying to capitalize on the pot law.

I’m doing my little happy dance waiting for him to show up all butthurt.

Jonn my family thanks you for allowing me to play here now. I get all my snarkiness out on the posers here so there’s none left for them. Well not as much as before. I’ve stopped throwing things at them when they speak to me.

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